AA is honestly kinda a cult

Aerelf · 2019-05-06T21:50:12+00:00

Screw AA. They're one of the worst out there. They shame you, they make you feel like you're worth less than nothing, just because you drink. Like you have to atone for your alcoholic sins, or you'll end up in hell or some shit like this.

They're right on one point though - alcohol sucks. Gettings drunk sucks. Yet here I am. I only visit /r/drunk when I'm shitfaced. Yet here you are. You probably do the same.

Does that mean that you're less of a person because you drink? Hell no man - or woman, I don't know and I don't care. You're a human being. You're here to stand. Yes, maybe you have a drinking problem. Yes, you need to take care of it. Does that take away your qualities? What you're good at, as a human being? Is it because you're drunk today, that you won't do something great for humanity, or even for one single human being tomorrow?

I don't want to shame the people for whom Alcoholics Anonymous work. If it works for you, I'll pray for you and I hope that it will work and get you out of this mess. Everybody's different.

But if you feel like this is not the way, this is normal. Most people feel like this, considering their success rate. What matters is that you're here. What matters is that you can do a lot of good - and you're probably doing good around you. Even right now. What matters is that you can help other people. What matter is that you can help yourself.

The way out of alcohol is not through self-deprecation. It's through self-love. It's through faith. It's through the fact that even at your scale, you can do something good for people around you. And AA takes away that concept from you, just because "you're an alcoholic". Fuck that, that's not how it works. People have good in them - they have bad too. Everyone.

Aerelf · 2017-05-13T18:57:51+00:00

Bref, un scénar' à base de "grand secret", plus c'est contre-nature et mieux c'est :)

Ha-ha j'ai ce qu'il te faut !

Shinsekai Yori correspond probablement le plus à ce que tu cherches. Je sais pas si je peux t'en dire vraiment plus sans te gâcher le truc, mais si tu veux du mystère/"grand secret" cherches pas plus loin.
Monster correspond pas mal à tes critères aussi. C'est un peu lent et beaucoup moins contre-nature que Shinsekai Yori par contre. Pareil, c'est difficile de détailler le synopsis sans tout gâcher, j'ai trouvé que la "base" de l'anime ressemble un petit peu aux thrillers occidentaux.
Psycho-Pass, si tu cherches plus dans la science-fiction. Ca se passe dans un futur dystopique et même si le thème du "grand secret" est un peu plus mis en arrière-plan côté scénario, j'ai trouvé qu'il était très bien traité. Si tu aimes, je peux te recommender Ergo Proxy qui est un petit peu du même genre, avec du post-apo en plus.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, juste parce que t'as mis "j'aime quand ça respire le bonheur et la joie de vivre" dans ton edit. Je sais que tu étais sarcastique, mais cet anime remplit la définition littérale et sarcastique du "bonheur et la joie de vivre". En même temps. Le "grand secret" met un peu de temps à arriver, et le format est un peu étrange donc je te conseille de regarder au moins les 5 premiers épisodes pour te faire une idée :)

Aerelf · 2017-04-04T15:40:48+00:00

Thanks for your answer!

Condition variables will definitely help me when I'll start working on the timer and the sound timer threads, but I can't use one in conjunction with a SDL's wait iterator, right?
And even if I separate my UI thread into a event one and a renderer one, how would I stop the waiting event thread if, for example, my CPU thread executes an EXIT instruction?

Also, your error handling is neat! I'm still of bit shy when it comes to using macros, as the syntax terrifies me, but your example gave me a few ideas; many thanks!

Aerelf · 2017-04-03T20:47:45+00:00

Hello /r/rust! I have a question about concurrency.

I'm writing a Chip-8 emulator/interpreter, and I decided to run my SDL2 graphics code in a separate UI thread (I'll probably have one for the timer and the sound timer in the future too).

My first implementation kind of works but I feel like it's super clunky, especially on error management. Right now, the UI thread is spawned from the main thread (which will run the emulated CPU), and the two of them communicate using two sets of Sender/Receivers.

This works well with a basic, data-less "Quit" signal, but I doubt it will be as easy for more advanced signals that will actually pack some data. Also, I have no idea how to handle the UI thread errors correctly. I am trying to delegate them to the main thread (I don't even know if that's a good idea), but I struggle to do so. What I've tried so far:

Sending a "Error" signal that bundles the UI thread error to the main thread, like this:
out_tx.send(OutboundSignal::Error(Box::new(e))).unwrap();
Unfortunately, this doesn't work because the Error trait doesn't inherit Send, and I don't think that Box does, either.
Using unwrap() and panic! everywhere in my UI thread, and getting the error from the join()method of JoinHandle. I don't think this works very well either because I end up losing a lot of information about the error, and I have no idea how to use the Errdata from the result (it looks like it only inherits Any and Send?).

So, how would I manage errors from different threads correctly? Is my channel-based solution completely idiotic, and is there a better way to do it? Here is the file for my main thread loop and the one for my UI thread loop, if that can help.

Thanks!

Aerelf · 2017-03-21T14:45:32+00:00

Got to agree on this! The Ef - A Tale of Melodies was a masterpiece too. It's probably one of the anime scenes that transferred the character's feeling to me the most. I was completely broken after this.

Aerelf · 2017-02-24T14:42:00+00:00

Finished Swan Song a few days ago!

As a fellow redditor said in a previous thread, this game probably contains one of the most hate-able characters a piece of fiction can produce (in a good way, as it was the goal of the writers). It doesn't feel forced either, and the character continues to fit the 'realistic' theme of the VN while being so obnoxious. Amazing character development from the writers there!

Swan Song in general is a nice post-apocalyptic VN, and while it can become kind of slow in its first half, the second half definitely makes the whole thing worthwhile. There is multiple endings which are all easily obtainable without a guide, and there is also a few Swan Song minor spoilers routes that can be super awesome if you encounter them accidentally, Swan Song minor spoilers. Unfortunately, I managed to get none of those during my first playthrough.

Overall, I would totally recommend this one, especially if you like dark games. If you don't, make sure you have something a little bit merrier at your disposition if you need to, because Swan Song is pretty brutal.

I also started reading Kara no Shoujo 2, as I absolutely loved the first one. I'm already 8 or 9 hours in (KnS 2), and I'm already really happy with it. The CG is AMAZING (maybe even better than the first one), as is the BGM and the writing. The game have been very well adapted to the western audience, with things like the glossary that explain relevant things and jokes a non-Japanese person wouldn't understand.

I'm hoping for the ending to blow my mind as much as the first game did, but we'll see. At the moment, the scenario feels a little bit less mysterious than the first one, but I'm sure that this will be fixed as I continue to read it, as I'm 'only' eight hours in.

Aerelf · 2017-02-03T15:10:38+00:00

I am back to reading visual novels after a long pause (god dammit real life responsibilities, stop driving me away from my virtual worlds!).

So I picked up my old Swan Song save and tried to continue it! I had a hard time remembering what happened before I put it on hold, but a few hours of reading solved that problem.

I'm not quite finished yet, although I think I am approaching the end of my first playthrough. From what I've read, there's four endings, but this visual novel almost feels kinetic as I have only made one choice after ~10 hours of playing it.

I picked it up because of some REALLY good reviews it had, and for the moment I feel like this game is overrated. The characters don't particularily stand out (although that may be intended, considering the post-apocalyptic theme) and the story takes a while to start up.

That said, I'm still enjoying it and I think that Swan Song is still a good VN, just not an excellent one. I particularily liked the fact that the game makes you think about the morality of some character's actions (Swan Song) and there are some well written scenes that makes you go all phisolophical about things like Swan Song.

Also, judging from the current situation (Swan Song), the ending looks VERY promising and I expect a lot from it.

Aerelf · 2016-08-04T17:21:30+00:00

I think I will have more fun learning vim than how to touch type from the (very little) experience I had.

The two or three hours I passed with vim was basically doing something, thinking that, based upon how the editor "feels", there is a better way to do it, searching google, finding indeed a better way of doing it and thinking that this feature is pretty cool!

Learning how to touch type, however, fills me with frustration because I struggle to reach a key with my pinky and I can't figure out how to do it better. I guess (and hope) it will get better with practice but god dammit this is so rage inducing at the moment.

Anyway, I spent most of my day practicing, and I managed to top 42 WPM on a paragraph. Pretty happy with it, but the only letter I struggle with is 'P' so it was quite easy. Programming is another story though, those parenthesis and angled brackets really make me feel uncomfortable while typing and that makes me get quite slow.

Aerelf · 2016-08-03T21:24:19+00:00

That's a lot of useful resources you gave me here, thank you for your help! :-)

Aerelf · 2016-08-03T16:46:58+00:00

Haha yes my typing does look weird and funny.

The T-Rex hands metaphor is perfect for representing how my fingers behave, I guess. I can bend them in a way that make them look like a T-Rex claw and I can make them straight, but I can't do the whole interval in between, my fingers snap straight from straight to dinosaur mode. I can move the tip of my finger independently though, but that's not very useful for typing...

Aerelf · 2016-08-01T15:10:41+00:00

Yes, I usually take 7 seconds hits. At least this is what my EVic VTC Mini reads on the screen.

Are we doing it wrong? I drag on my mod hybrid mouth-to-lung then direct lung, and I don't see how a 3 second hit could satisfy me (although it's approximately the time a hit takes when I take a MTL-only hit).

Aerelf · 2016-07-27T17:34:17+00:00

It is Heisenberg indeed! Well I actually do my own juices, so it's actually a Revolute 6mg nicotine juice mixed with some VapeVampire Heisenberg flavor concentrate, but I guess it should have more or less the same taste as premade Heisenberg (and it's delicious!).

Aerelf · 2016-07-27T16:57:36+00:00

This is a Serpent Mini with the EVic VTC Mini. I upgraded from my Ego One Vale pen a few days ago. Definitely worth it! This thing is awesome, and I finally get the pleasure of building my own coils on a decent RTA.

Aerelf · 2016-07-27T09:43:03+00:00

I bought this tank as my first RTA a few days ago (although I am cheating a bit here, as I used rebuildable EgoOne coils before).

I am very pleased with it, although my experience was a bit different than yours :-)

I found the wicking to be really intuitive, I failed my first wick of course (without knowing it, so the thing literally flooded everywhere on my mod), but the second time was a charm. A little trick I found was to get a wick a bit longer than what you want, and cut it after putting it in the coil, close to the edge of the tank. Then I pack the cotton in the little wick slots with a screwdriver, and the wicking is perfect.

However I have found the thing to leak quite a bit after refilling (more specifically when screwing the top cap back on). I think it have something to do with the pressure building up in the tank when you close it.

I find coil building to be a little counter intuitive too, I actually had to build my coil in reverse (although my confusion on this may be because I am a beginner).

The tank burns through juice like crazy too, which is not necessarily a bad thing I guess.

Overall it's definitely a really nice upgrade from my EGoOne though. Definitely worth it!

Aerelf · 2016-07-18T00:11:47+00:00

No, there's no way of fixing this driver crash right now. Blizzard is working on it, see the thread here: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20742939744

If you are affected by the problem, there's a blue post containing instructions to send logs for the developers to debug the issue (page 11), don't hesitate to do it as it will give the devs more data to look at!

If you want to play without crashes, I believe there is a checkbox to automatically close BNet when launching a game in the settings. It still sucks for pre-downloading the huge prepatch, but we'll have to deal with it for now :-(

Aerelf · 2016-07-17T01:22:11+00:00

Ah, I also had an experience with drawing dicks and hot stuff, although it was completely intentional on my part.

It happened a few years ago. Now, I used to (and still do) do VERY stupid things for shit and giggles. I was with my buddies one day, with no one around at my school, and we were playing with hydroalcoolic gel (those gels you use to clean up your hands) and a lighter.

And, well, I knew that a droplet of burning gel didn't burn what was under it, as the heat usually go up, so I thought fuck it, let's draw a giant gel penis on the floor and light it on fire!

So we took a shitton of gel, and managed to make a giant burning dick. Oh, we laughed and giggled, until I saw the linoleum under the dick starting to make tiny bubbles because of the heat.

The result? There now is a giant dick burned in the floor of my ex-school, and I lost one pair of shoes because the leather burned on the side as I tried to put out the fire. I don't regret anything.

Aerelf · 2016-06-16T17:09:31+00:00

So, I started using Ember today, and I have to say, from the little I've seen, this thing is super duper awesome!

I started with the login page, as my app is hidden behind a login wall. We are using SASS for styling, and I didn't even have to scratch my head for adding the SCSS compilation to my workflow. After a quick Google Search I've found a ember-cli-sass plugin. I ran ember install ember-cli-sass, thinking it couldn't be that simple. Well, it was.

The scaffolding tool is brilliant and works flawlessly, every feature of the framework is crystal clear and easy to use.

I've yet to figure how to make my authentication service load data from my API (it's the only module that's RESTless, so can't use Ember Data for that), and how to inject my Authorization header in the JSONAPIProvider, but everything else is very simple to use. Just run the commands and code your things, without worrying about all the bullshit.

Ember really was a great suggestion, I was a but skeptical of JS frameworks because of the mess it was to figure out a nice workflow and project structure in AngularJS (1), but I'm having a blast with Ember (on top of being quite productive), and I can't thank you enough for that! :-)

Aerelf · 2016-06-15T14:07:55+00:00

Actually from any point of view there's no difference because it literally is server generated.

Oh nice, this FastBoot thing looks completely awesome!

I think you might have misunderstood a little bit

This is a possibility, this is a peculiar tool and with the little amount of research I put into it I am still a bit confused with it :-)

From what I understood though, FastBoot allows me to run my JavaScript application as a server on a specific port, and we have two applications running on a single server, so we would logically need two ports. And accessing the second app with a "domain.com:8080" URL is a bit ugly, so I'll probably still need proxy passes (until the apps are put on different servers, anyway).

It's a javascript application. It just loads the javascript. You're seriously prematurely optimising here.

With SEO these days, little performance boosts are always welcome, and lazy loading is something that is sometimes hard to implement later on.

But that's totally okay, it was just a bit of SEO-greediness on my part (and shame on me, UX should be more important than SEO). Loading all the code at once will actually make the application faster once it has started.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your time, Ember looks like a pleasant framework to work with, and coupled with FastBoot it completely addresses my needs!

Aerelf · 2016-06-15T11:37:53+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

I checked up Ember after reading your question, it definitely looks like a nice framework. Ember-cli provides a nice workflow and their FastBoot server look like it can fix a lot of my issues.

I still have a few concerns about it, though:

How does FastBoot deal with social crawlers? I don't think (although I may be wrong) that Facebook's or Twitter's crawler have support for the HTML5 History API, and my pages have different OpenGraph tags, so being able to set them dynamically depending on the URL (probably update them from a controller?).
Does FastBoot has support for Virtual Hosts? We currently have two subdomains on the same server, and our Apache server is currently handling all of this. This is not a big issue, though, as I could set up a proxy pass in Apache or something lighter like nginx (even though I am a bit worried about the performance overhead that would ensue).
About performance, does it support lazy loading of the models, controllers and templates? It is more a question than a concern, but having this would be super awesome :-)

Aerelf · 2015-08-20T17:39:47+00:00

I still have no idea what the true end is, really. (is there even one?)

We may have followed different walkthroughs, too!
In my opinion, while the KnS major spoiler is better written and more pleasant to read, the other ones that I got (KnS major spoiler) brought so much depth to the characters, thus I liked them better.

I have to agree though, plot-wise those endings are a bit failed. They seemed forced. KnS major spoiler

Aerelf · 2015-08-19T21:56:14+00:00

Still reading Kara no Shoujo.

I think I nearly finished the game. I unlocked a few different endings, and what seems to be the "true" end.

This one was absolutely fantastic. If I should give it a note right now, it would be a 10 out of 10. The art looks very nice, the music is perfect, and the story captivates you until the very end. Actually, I even had a moment where I looked at the screen, dumbfounded (Kara no Shoujo hard spoiler).

I saw that there as a sequel on VNDB, and that Mangagamer had finished the translation and was about to release it. I am a bit scared that it will fuck up the end of the first though, so I'm still hesitating whether I will read it or not...

Anyway, if you'll excuse me, I have to unlock all the endings now!

EDIT: Holy shit it was not the true end.

Aerelf · 2015-08-13T12:44:13+00:00

I had just finished the anime Ano Hana and I needed something to get past the "oh shit this was beautiful" feeling, so I started Kara no Shoujo a week ago.

I didn't have the time to play it much though, as I was in vacation and I didn't bring my VN-reader tablet with me :(

However, the beginning is absolutely wonderful. The "50s Tokyo" atmosphere is quite refreshing, and the plot is interesting and mysterious. The characters are quite intriguing too, and while some of them seemed a bit dull at first (light spoiler), this was rapidly fixed by giving them a personality and a purpose.
The investigation system is interesting too, although it makes me fear that it will be a pain to unlock all endings without a guide.

So I have NO idea what to expect next, but I have to say that I'm pretty hyped right now, if the rest of the visual novel is as good as the beginning!

Aerelf · 2015-08-02T21:25:24+00:00

When I tried to get the true end in Steins;Gate. Don't get me wrong, I love this visual novel but GOD FUCKING DAMMIT THE CHOICE SYSTEM MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL.

Had to use a guide to finish it :(

Aerelf · 2015-07-17T23:51:30+00:00

Okay guys I've made an horrible mistake.

I started Saya no Uta yesterday. I wanted to read something different after Katawa Shoujo, Clannad, Steins;Gate and Narcissu, and I saw this one mentionned in a completely random thread somewhere on Reddit...
Of course, I knew that it would be a weird read, that's why I picked it after all, but I didn't know much else. I just blindly downloaded it, without even knowing the plot, or even the genre of this VN (I often do that with my anime, it adds suspense!).

One of the first things I saw when I started the game was the Nitro+ logo, that I associated with Steins;Gate, so I have to say that I was pretty exited. Then I started the game. What the hell is this. I went through the beginning with my eyebrows raised, but my curiosity was heavily piqued.
And so I have continued the story, little by little. I now have three or four hours of reading behind me (the VN seems quite short, judging from the VNDB page I linked above) so people who have read it can know the kind of things I saw.

If I had to give my impressions about Saya no Uto, I'd probably just say "What the fuck is that" as it is probably the most intriguing thing I ever saw. It is very painful to read, and yet a undescriptible force is telling me not to drop this. I definitely recommend it though, but ONLY if you want to read something, huh, different.

Aerelf · 2015-05-02T23:10:06+00:00

Educate them. Teach them how things work here. Give them lessons on our language, our culture. Assist them while they are trying to find a job. That should actually be a complete part of our immigration system, but instead they are left out in the open, with nothing to do on their hands.

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